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| 1986 || Program launch || USAID launches its HIV and AIDS program. Since then, the agency would play a leading role in averting the global AIDS crisis.<ref>{{cite web |title=HIV AND AIDS TIMELINE |url=https://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/global-health/hiv-and-aids/technical-areas/hiv-and-aids-timeline |website=usaid.gov |accessdate=30 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 1987 || || USAID starts the HealthTech Program, which is charged with discovering new and appropriate cost effective technologies to apply to immunization programs in the developing world.<ref name="Three decades of USAID investments in immunization through the child survival revolution"/> ||
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| 1995 || || Legislation to abolish USAID is introduced by Senator {{w|Jesse Helms}}, the Chairman of the {{Senate Foreign Relations Committee}}, with aims at replacing USAID with a grant-making foundation.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/16/world/helms-seeks-to-merge-foreign-policy-agencies.html | work=The New York Times | first=Steven | last=Greenhouse | title=Helms Seeks to Merge Foreign Policy Agencies | date=March 16, 1995}}</ref> ||
